DETROIT — A Midland man, who previously worked as a staffer in the Michigan Senate, has been arrested for allegedly striking a Capitol Police officer with a flagpole and being within feet of the doors to the U.S. House chamber on Jan. 6, 2021.
A statement from an FBI agent filed in federal court and unsealed Friday showed images of Jeremy Rodgers, 28, a former Midland City Council candidate, carrying a Donald Trump flag as he moved through the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. Rodgers allegedly used the flagpole as a weapon and struck one Capitol officer three times on the helmet, said the statement from Nicholas Vanderploeg, a special agent for the FBI.
"The strikes are loud enough to be heard in videos documenting the assault," Vanderploeg wrote.
